82 



a'. Fore wing underside : without any prominent 

 internervular greyish-white streaks except 



just near torn us P. polyctor, p. 82. 



V. Fore wing underside : with very prominent 

 internervular greyish-white streaks, short 

 near tornus, but gradually longer towards 



costal margin P. polyctor, race 



yanesa, p. 84. 



537. Papilio bianor, Cramer, Pap. Exot. ii, 1777, p. 10, pi. 103, fig. C ; 



Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. E. I. C. i, 1857, p. 110; Rothsch. Nov. 

 Zool. ii, 1895, p. 378. 



Papilio gladiator, Fruhstorfer, Iris, xi, 1901, pp. 370, 371 ; id. 

 Berl. ent. Zeit. 1902, p. 184; Moore (Sarbaria), Lep. 2nd. vi, 

 1903, p. 58, pi. 489, fig. 1. 



c? $ . Upperside dull brownish black, much darker on the hind 

 wing than on the fore wing. Tore wing irrorated somewhat 

 sparsely with green scales, which in the cf tend to form green 

 internervular streaks. Hind wing : basal three-fourths irrorated 

 on the posterior half of the wing with green, on the anterior half 

 with blue scales that leave a broad and uniform terminal and costal 

 margin devoid of the irroration of blue or green scales ; a sub- 

 terminal series of lunules often incomplete, the anterior ones of 

 blue scales, the posterior ones claret-red traversed by short inner 

 lines of blue ; the tornal lunule the widest. Cilia brown, in hind 

 wing alternated with white. Underside : fore wing chocolate- 

 brown ; the cell with a slight irroration of yellowish scales ; the 

 outer half of the wing with broad pale internervular streaks that 

 increase iu length from the tornal angle to the costa, but do not 

 reach the terminal margin. Hind wing deep brownish black, the 

 base, cell and the disc partially with thin irroration of pale yellow 

 scales ; a conspicuous subterminal complete series of broad claret- 

 red lunules traversed by short lines of violet-blue, and a series of 

 terminal narrow transverse ochraceous spots in the interspaces. 

 Antennae, head, thorax and abdomen chocolate-brown ; the head, 

 thorax and abdomen above thinly sprinkled with green scales. 

 $ similar, but larger and altogether paler. 



Exp. 3 $ 124-150 mm. (4-98-6-9"). 



Hab. China, except in the extreme north and south, extending 

 within our limits into Burma and Tenasserim. 



I have seen only two specimens of this form from Burma 

 which, after careful comparison, I find can be exactly matched by 

 specimens from China. It is a variable insect, however, and the 

 points relied upon for separating it (under the name gladiator, 

 Fruhst.), as a race of the Chinese bianor, are eminently variable. 



538. Papilio polyctor (PI. XIII, fig. 89, 3 ), Boisduval, Spec. Gen. 



Lep. i, 1836, p. 205 ; Moore, Cat. Lep. Mus. JE. I. C. i, 1857, 

 p. 109 ; Rothsch. 3 7 or. Zool. ii, 1895, p. 381 ; Mackinnon & de N. 

 Jour. Bomb. N. H. Soc. xi, 1898, p. 594, pi. VV, figs. 24 -24 c, 

 larva & pupa ; Moore (Sarbaria), Lep. InJ. vi, 1903, p. 51, pi. 485, 

 figs. 1, la, Ib, larva & pupa, d $ , and pi. 480, figs. 1, la, U, 3 $ . 



